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DBMS > 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. OrientDB vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. OrientDB vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comallegrograph.comorientdb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
Developer4D, IncFranz Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSTS Soft SC
Initial release19842004201020112023
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 20233.2.29, March 20244.0.8, September 20151.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)WindowsLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)Vector, Numeric and String
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language, no joinsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common LispJava, Javascriptnono
TriggersyesyesHooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAllegroGraphOrientDBSTSdbTranswarp Hippo
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